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“An intoxicating blend of languid Folk/Country, reverberating Psychedelia and boisterous Indie Rock, deeply rooted in the 60s/70s past, shrouded in the visceral and romantic noir songwriting of Nick Cave or Rowland S. Howard”,
The Oakland, CA-based DIY nuanced indie rock band returns, after last year’s brilliant 2-track 7-inch, “About Carrie / Bloody Nose”, we relly loved and wrote about, with the new single, “Grassy Knoll”, expertly produced by Ricky Maymi (The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Wild Swans), mixed by Jason Shaw (Cambodian Space Project), and mastered by Felix Davis (Gently Tender, The Cardinals, Led Zeppelin).
A painstakingly crafted, sun-kissed and bouncy jangly guitar-pop, balances energy and grace in equal measure, embodying the immaculate vintage songwriting that joins the dots between the 80s (Lloyd Cole & The Commotions, The Go Betweens) and the 90s (Stephen Malkmus and Silver Jews), while sounding thoroughly fresh and timeless.
Seemingly bright, carefree and somehow romantic on the surface, “Grassy Knoll” is lyrically thought-provoking, about the Hellish toll that has taken place since the pivotal, narrative changing, assassination of JFK and the children’s book “Curious George” by H. A. Ray was released.
The song unwinds on lively drums and supple pulsing bass lines, awash with graciously sculpted clean guitar riffs that strum and jangle with meandering melodies, winged with radiating melancholy, and sober flourishings of fluting keyboards, lush strings and stirring piano chimes, waxing and waning amid sudden jolts of energy and sparkly gripping arpeggiated bridges, while heartfelt, soulful deep male vocals draw an exquisite alluring raw complement to dramatic airy female longing, to conjure up a sense of warmth, sadness, and nostalgia.
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